CHAPTER 16
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Carmilla's concentration was immediately interrupted right during the middle of her attempt to reassemble Dracula by the sudden appearance of a snarling Victoria in her wolf form. The two of them quickly started to go toe to toe with each other as Carmilla turned herself into a large cat. The two beasts were doing their best to rip each other to shreds as the others watched them in horror.
"Where did Vicky come from?" Donna asked in an equally annoyed and worried tone. She was afraid that Victoria was going to be killed by the vampire.
"She broke out despite our best efforts at preventing it. She's just getting stronger and stronger. We've been chasing after her all the way here from UNIT HQ," Martha said as she came running up to Donna panting and out of breath.
"We?" Donna asked.
"Meet your new team members," Martha said with a smile as she pointed to some new arrivals.
There in the doorway of Mark's house stood a young blonde woman whose face somehow looked old and young at the same time and a determined looking man who was holding a pointed stake in his hand. Standing behind them was a pale woman holding the hand of a little girl. The woman was standing in front of the girl in an attempt to shield her from danger.
"Meet Elisabeta, Ileana's sister; Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Ileana's husband; and Katherine and her adopted daughter, Amanda. They're friends of Ileana's," Martha said with a smile at the questions that she knew would soon be coming from Donna.
"Wait a minute! Is this team going to be called Ileana and Her Amazing Friends now? What's with all of these new arrivals with connections to Ileana? Oh, and THE Van Helsing, really?" Donna asked with her eyes bugged out.
"That's me," Abraham said with a smile.
"You have got to be kidding me! I thought Van Helsing was fictional," Donna said in disbelief.
"Stoker's book did give people that impression, didn't it? That was by Dracula's design of course. He got to Stoker by using his usual cheerful and loving personality and made him craft the story like it was a work of fiction instead of the true life account that it had originally started out as. The man just couldn't get the details right anyway though even when he hadn't been intimidated into submission by Dracula. He completely left out Diana Ceres and her part in Dracula's downfall," Abraham said.
"Who's Diana Ceres?" Donna asked.
"My mum," Rose answered proudly.
"Lily fought Dracula along with THE Van Helsing?! This story just keeps getting better and better all of the time," Donna said with a big smile on her face.
"If you're through having a big fangirl crush on my husband, Donna, then I think that we should pay attention to the fight between Victoria and Carmilla," Ileana said in an annoyed tone.
"There's no reason to be jealous, Fang Girl. I'm just amazed at how even now I can still be surprised even after all that I've seen. Plus I just love those old vampire movies," Donna said with glee.
Ileana rolled her eyes and groaned.
"This is why I don't tell people my last name. It happens every time!" Ileana said in exasperation.
Ileana's mortification was quickly interrupted by Victoria flying by her and landing in the middle of Mark's living room table, smashing it to pieces instantly. Mark held his hands to his head and moaned. His home was being systematically demolished one piece at a time. Michelle reached out and squeezed his hand in sympathy.
Carmilla leaped on top of Victoria, and the two of them kept snarling and slashing at each other as the collateral damage to Mark's living room continued to escalate by the second. Michelle had had enough. She was tired of seeing the misery in Mark's eyes.
Michelle grabbed Carmilla's shoulder, and the two of them vanished into the reflection in the still somehow undamaged living room mirror. Michelle reappeared alone with a triumphant smirk on her face.
Donna quipped, "What was that about vampires not being able to see themselves in mirrors?"
"Don't go there, Mouth Girl! Just don't!" Ileana said.
"Mouth Girl?! Oi! I'm the only one who can call people nick names in this group," Donna said in pretend anger.
"It's over, Daemons. The person who you chose to give your power to was unworthy of it, and they have lost. It's time for you to head back home and leave this planet alone. I'm giving you one warning, and then I'll have to stop you," the Doctor said coldly to the two Daemons in the room.
"She was not the only one to summon us. There are two more," one of the Daemons said.
"What?" the Doctor asked in concern.
"The other two sisters," Katherine said as she drew Amanda close to her.
"What two sisters?" the Doctor asked lost.
"Carmilla's sister vampires and Dracula's other wives, Alina and Nicoleta," Rose answered.
"Does everyone know about these women but me?" the Doctor pouted.
"I've met them before. They wanted to kill Katherine and Amanda in order to prevent humanity from finding their secret hideout in an abandoned castle. Amanda could have helped expose Carmilla's role in the supposed accidental death of her parents who had been going to inspect the castle for a real estate deal. The vampire hunters would have quickly found them and ripped their sanctuary apart if that had happened. I saved them from being continually hunted by them by bringing them here to the future from their home in 1890. At least I thought I did. It seems that the sisters have somehow managed to accidentally cross paths with them yet again," Rose said.
"You manage to get in oh so much trouble even without me, don't you? I swear you're getting worse than me," the Doctor said chuckling.
"There's no need to be insulting," Rose said, pretending to be mad. Then she quickly broke into one of her huge face wide smiles.
"Where are the two sisters? I think that we need to find them before they find me again," Amanda said nervously.
Donna realized that they had all forgotten about Victoria and quickly looked around for her. She saw her sitting docilely on the floor and watching the others around her with intense interest.
Donna slowly and cautiously walked up to her and said, "Vicky? Do you understand me? Are you in there?"
Victoria looked at her and slowly nodded her head. Donna slowly put her hand on top of Victoria's head and lightly patted it. Victoria looked at her sadly but made no threatening moves.
"I'm so sorry, Vicky. I'll find some way to help you somehow. Just try to keep in control, okay?" Donna said gently to her.
Victoria nodded again and bowed submissively in front of Donna. Donna looked at her sadly and swore that somehow she was going to help this poor kid if it killed her.
Victoria suddenly stood right up on her feet with her ears up alert. She hissed and snarled as she sensed the presence of the two sisters before anyone else did. Donna realized that she must be sensing them and quickly went on alert as she watched carefully for them to reveal their presence there.
She didn't have long to wait as Nicoleta grabbed ahold of Amanda and tried to pull her out of Katherine's arms. Katherine was having none of this though and quickly began to fight back as her fangs extended in rage.
"Another one," Donna said to herself with a shake of her head.
"Do you have something against vampires?" Ileana said.
"Yes, they did try to kill me and turn me into one of them recently. You don't tend to forget something like that, Fang Girl," Donna said.
"Katherine's a good person. She's not like the others," Ileana vouched for her even as she raced to help her.
That was when the other sister, Alina, suddenly appeared and began to attack her. She was successfully keeping her at bay and from Katherine's side.
"We haven't lost the right to the power of the Daemons yet. If we can kill all of you, then we can still keep it and bring Dracula back," Alina said to Ileana.
"You couldn't stand a chance against me before. What makes you think that you do now?" Ileana said as she sank her teeth into Alina's throat.
She started to drink Alina's blood, and the brunette vampire started to cry out in agony.
"Alina!" Nicoleta screamed.
Nicoleta quickly punched Katherine in the face and grabbed Amanda away from her. She then angrily picked the little girl up and said, "Release her, or I'll drain the child dry on the spot!"
Rose's eyes glowed with power as she stretched out her hand towards Nicoleta and instantly the redheaded vampire dissolved into dust right before everyone's eyes. Amanda was then gently lowered to the ground unharmed.
It was at this moment that Carmilla suddenly reappeared and began to use the power that the Daemon had given her to attack Rose. She started trying to disintegrate Rose with her powers of matter manipulation while simultaneously restoring Alina.
The two of them were now locked in battle with each other so Rose was taken out of the fight for now at least against the other two sisters. Abraham stepped in and staked the newly returned Alina in the chest instantly as soon as she had returned and before she could get her bearings. Alina yelled out a curse as she died again for the second time in less than two minutes.
As Abraham started to fight Nicoleta, Carmilla brought Alina back yet again. This time he was unaware of her return, and she swiftly started moving towards him ready to break his neck and kill him.
Luckily for him, Ileana had seen her return; and she swiftly grabbed her and lifted her up off of the ground. She kept lifting her up until she was holding her entire body up over her head.
"Michelle, can you trap someone in a mirror from a distance; or do you have to touch them?" Ileana asked her as Alina desperately struggled to get free from her.
"I haven't ever tried it before to be honest. Here goes," Michelle said.
Her eyes turned opaque as she focused on putting Alina into the living room mirror like she had with Carmilla before. Alina disappeared instantly, and Ileana smiled at her in relief.
Then Michelle started to feel Carmilla trying to bring Alina back from the mirror world against her will. Michelle fought back against her and started to glow with power as she tried harder and harder to keep Alina from being brought back.
"No one leaves the mirror world unless I want them to!" Michelle said defiantly.
"I did and so will my sister," Carmilla mocked her.
Donna knew that the key to stopping all of this was permanently taking out Carmilla so that she would quit bringing her sisters back. She had to find a way to do that and do it quickly. This would test her leadership skills right out of the gate.
Donna did something that she had never done before and used her telepathic powers for the first time. She concentrated on setting up a telepathic link between herself, Ileana, Michelle, Rose, and the Doctor. She didn't know the new people so she didn't want to include them in the link. Being telepathically linked was an intimate thing after all, and Donna didn't want a stranger to have any kind of access to her mind.
We're going to have to give Carmilla too much to do at once and hope that that will overload her and burn her out somehow Donna said in her mind.
She then outlined a plan for the others to follow that she hoped would work and rid them of the three sisters for good. Working together in tandem, Ileana held Nicoleta while Abraham staked her. Then Rose started disintegrating Carmilla with a massive burst of Vortex energy at the same time.
Carmilla was now struggling to save herself from destruction at the same time as she was trying to restore one sister and free another one against the will of Michelle. She was beginning to weaken as Rose poured on the power, and Michelle fought harder and harder against her with every ounce of concentration that she possessed.
Finally Carmilla gave up trying to save the two sisters in favor of saving herself, but she was now severely weakened from the ordeal. She successfully fought off Rose's attempt to disintegrate her only to now be attacked by Ileana who suddenly started biting her and draining her blood. As Carmilla tried to fight off Ileana, Rose started attacking her once again.
At the same time as these other attacks, the Doctor started bombarding her with ultrasonic waves from his sonic screwdriver that were at a higher frequency than could be heard by human beings but could be heard perfectly by vampires with their superior hearing. He increased the volume of his sonic until Carmilla was almost passing out from the sound. Ileana was protected from the sound by Rose so that she could continue to attack Carmilla.
Carmilla couldn't handle this coordinated assault and was now on the verge of giving up, but she continued to struggle on against the odds with every ounce of willpower at her command. Donna began to despair of ever breaking the vampire when Victoria suddenly attacked her as well without anyone telling her to.
Victoria quickly sank her large teeth into Carmilla's neck, and the pain from this act was the straw that broke the camel's back. Carmilla gave up the fight, and she was quickly dissolved into dust by Rose.
Now two sisters were done, and the other was trapped in the mirror world. They had won. Now they just had to hope that their victory was enough to convince the Daemons to go home.
"Are you going to leave now, or do we have to stop you as well?" the Doctor challenged them.
The two Daemons looked impressed at what they had just seen; and one of them said, "Your friends have done well, Doctor. We will leave now because we see that our choice was wrong. With such champions such as you and the others to defend it, humanity earns the right to keep this planet in our opinion. Our experiment is deemed to be over . . . for now."
The two of them faded away, and the battle was finally over. The vampires had lost, and all but one of them were dead now. Not bad for a first mission Donna thought with a satisfied grin on her face.
Now the only thing left to do was to somehow make it up to Mark that they had trashed his house. Rose was on the job without even being asked. She restored Mark's house back to the way it had been before with a wave of her hand.
Mark just looked at this with a look of disbelief in his eyes. He looked like he was really overwhelmed by this whole experience and was unable to even process it all. Michelle was pretty sure that she'd never hear from him again after this.
The Doctor walked up to Donna and said, "Congratulations, Donna. It was your first time as a leader, and you passed with flying colors. I'm proud of you!"
Donna looked touched by his words as she said, "Thanks, Spaceman. I want you to know that that means a lot to me, especially coming from you."
The two of them then hugged each other tightly and said their goodbyes as Rose and the Doctor left and continued on their own adventures. They now felt confident that whatever happened to Earth in their absence that Donna and her team could handle it if they had to.
"Well, I guess we'll be leaving you to finish up your date now, Michelle. That is if you still want to," Donna asked her.
"I would love to, but I'm not so sure about Mark," Michelle said as she nervously waited on his answer.
Mark smiled a wide grin as he said, "I'd love to, Michelle. I'd like to pick up where we left off before we were so rudely interrupted."
Michelle's heart filled with joy at his words. She had been so afraid that their relationship had been over before it had even started.
Donna and her new team went inside of Donna's TARDIS and left Michelle there as they returned back to UNIT HQ to lock Victoria back up until the sun rose. Victoria seemed to be more in control of herself now, but Donna didn't want to take any chance of her going wild again.
Michelle and Mark enjoyed the rest of their night together as Alina screamed over and over again in the mirror world for someone to let her go. Her pleas fell on deaf ears because Michelle was definitely not focusing her attention on her at that moment.
Next: Donna gets to know her newest team members a little more, and Martha hands them their next mission. Also, what is going to happen to Alina?